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Prince Charles has said he is "heartbroken" over the "pain and suffering" inflicted on Christians in the Middle East because of their faith and pointed out that the Christmas story itself "ends with the Holy Family fleeing for refuge from persecution."

Sarah Mullally, the first female Bishop of London, has emphasized the Church of England's traditional teaching on marriage as being between a man and a woman despite being "supportive of LGBT equality."

Justin Welby, the archbishop Of Canterbury, has congratulated Prince Harry and actress Meghan Markle on their engagement and said he is "so happy" the couple has chosen to "make their vows before God."

Two Russian mercenaries who were slaughtered by ISIS after they refused to to be filmed rejecting their Christian faith and converting to Islam have been remembered as martyrs by the Russian Orthodox Church.

September 13, 2017: A Christian aid worker in Spain has shared how many Syrian refugees in the country are "frustrated" with Islam and are converting to Christianity after witnessing firsthand the love of Christ.

September 11, 2017: A Christian couple is suing a Church of England elementary school and said there is an "agenda" overriding their religious beliefs after their six-year-old son's classmate was allowed to wear a dress to school.

September 5, 2017: Christian leaders in Britain have vowed to "keep finding new ways" to spread the Gospel after a new study found that the UK is becoming an increasingly godless society, with more than half of the population now describing themselves as having "no religion".

July 18, 2017: Jehovah's Witnesses are fighting back after Russia banned the religious organization from freely practicing their faith and declared them to be an "extremist group", placing them in the same category as ISIS.

June 28, 2017: Charlie Gard, the terminally ill ten-month-old baby from the UK, will be taken off life support after his "utterly devastated" parents lost their final legal bid to take him to the USA for specialist treatment.

5 June 2017: China intends to relive the glories of its past through the Maritime Silk Road with the One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative, making it the largest economic platform in the world if it succeeds. This network of trade routes will certainly open up untapped markets in the modern world and bring about development to rural areas along the OBOR route.

In the wake of the London Bridge terror attack, Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said Islam needs to "take responsibility" for atrocities carried out in its name and reminded his country that the love of Jesus "is more powerful than the evil of terror or the profound wickedness of the terrorist."

Most people know Renaissance painter and architect Raphael Sanzio simply as the "Raphael" who covered the walls of the pope's Vatican palace in elaborate frescoes and filled the Sistine Chapel with tapestries modeled on his designs. Now, a new film celebrates and shares his creations with a larger audience.

Over 700 human rights and international religious freedom advocates have signed a letter to President Donald Trump urging his administration to "signal your commitment to people of faith and freedom of conscience" by moving swiftly on a nomination for Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom.

Prime Minister Theresa May has put the Queen in a "very difficult position" and should delay a state visit extended to President Donald Trump to protect her from controversy, the former head of the Foreign Office says.

The Syrian refugee crisis has long passed catastrophic proportions, and there does not seem to be any end in sight to it for the moment. Here is a snapshot of where young refugees get their forty winks.

In the sensational documentary "Titanic: The New Evidence," Senan Molony shocks many long-time Titanic fans and historians with a proposal: the elegant liner sank not ultimately by an iceberg, but by a coal-fire which preceded the fateful maritime journey.